Pay the Money

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
I'm wondering why the state legislators have not taken a pay cut, but are asking the rest of us to do so?
I mean, if they are not doing their job, i.e. balancing our budget, making sure needed programs have funding, making sure we are not wasting money...ought they have their full salary? Did we agree to pay for incompetence?
At least Arnold doesn't take a salary. I appreciate that about him, although I've wondered about his effectiveness as governor.
Waving around a sword on you tube...it was cute, maybe less appropriate then he realized...
Still yet, with all the media attention, political swagger, rhetoric... still, we've cut from education and health care for poor kids.
No matter what was said, this was the plan from the beginning. Take away from people who are most vulnerable.
And, hello - we'll have even more people with fewer intellectual skills than we do now. We're producing generations of people unable to think critically...who will rely on the media for their information in terms of who to vote for...YIKES!!! people like rush limbaugh - you don't have to own a tv or have cable service to listen to his dolus dogma, or go to church (more dolus dogma).
In addition, we'll have no one who can pick up the ball and run with technology. We'll have more sick people.
How will this get us to turn the corner in our country and become, once again, the leading nation we once THOUGHT we were?